Hacker News Reader

I thought it was more people complaining that they "have toyota corola". https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/11/14/i-have-toyota-corola/

View on HN

that is so interesting : developer puts email addr in license.txt; normal end user finds the only email addr in the whole UI and emails tech support request.

Well, the tech support requests are likely better than the hacking accusations he gets.[1]

1: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/01/19/subject-urgent-warnin...

wow - true that..

> Also, I have yet to figure out how to unhack the hackers from my Instagram so if you change your mind and want to restore my Instagram to its original form as well as help me secure my account from future privacy breaches, I'd be extremely grateful.

Seems like haxx domain is not great for interfacing with non technical people. I would even bet it could also be the case if he uses haxx email domain for US visa, he is not getting one...

Likely a combination of that and a quick search of his email matches malware source code since they'll likely have curl.h in there.

I had my phone number buried in my personal website. I also posted some articles about useful phone numbers.

Somehow I would get calls, or people commenting with their account numbers.

I don’t know why people thought my default theme was the bank or a federal government, but that they did.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com